Papers by Vwani Roychowdhury
Which side are you on? Insider-Outsider classification in conspiracy-theoretic social media (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Social media is a breeding ground for threat narratives and related conspiracy theories. |
| Approach: | They propose a new insider-outsider classification task that leverages pretrained language modeling to classify insiders and outsiders. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing models and existing datasets in the classifying task. |
My side, your side and the evidence: Discovering aligned actor groups and the narratives they weave (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Identify distinct sets of aligned story actors responsible for sustaining issue-specific narratives . authors propose a novel two-step graph-based framework that identifies alignments between actors . |
| Approach: | They propose a proxy task to identify the distinct sets of aligned story actors . they propose identifying alignments between actors and extracting alignes using TAMPA . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is based on a corpus of text segments associated with six issues . it identifies aligned actors and extracts alignable actor groups from the network structure . |